I think it's a mix of Chinese acupuncture meridians and the idea that muscles can be used as indicators of stress and/or imbalance within the body and therefore identify and rectify disease and malfunction. Alternative therapy - you like it or loathe it! I guess like a lot of alternative therapies (no offence intended at all) if you believe it's helpful then it probably is to some degree. Personally, I would never, ever use alternative therapy instead of traditional veterinary medicine but there are plenty who believe that alternative therapies have a valid complementary role. If you Google it, there's a ton of helpful information. I have no idea how practitioners qualify or are regulated. Good luck x
they work on the belief that the body knows what it needs to heal itself they do muscle tests to fine out what is going on (u go strong or week pending on what they ask) i think extremely good but then would only use along side vets etc.
one of the horses on our yard is a cribber they did tests and gave him some herbal stuff to sort out his gut etc and he is alot better (altough not stopped) but he always looked a bit poor but he now looks fantastic bodering on fat!! he has never been that way. i know a good one in whiltshire if thats any use? he will travel n there are only a few very very good one in the uk
I would always try alternative methods if I had a problem which didnt require veterinary treatment in the short term, i.e. natural remedies, homeopathy, herbal treatments etc as they either work, or do no harm (if you know what you are doing).
Keeping an open mind, I try to research a problem and occasionally bounce ideas off my vets.
I would say that there is no harm in investigating at least.
If you can't find anyone local, this girl is very good. You send a clipping of hair and she does it from home (kinesiolgy). She was (very scarily) accurate with my last Horse and gives you aromatherapy remedies. Webiste is worth a look anyway. http://www.pauhla.com/therapy.html
I am long long overdue (over a year!!!) but I thought you might be interested to read/see a case study of a horse of mine that kinesiology saved.
The vets were pumping steroids into her which was making her skin thinner and thinner, had we not found this kinesiologist she'd not be here today:
Were it not for kinesiology - Watti would no longer be with us, my Mother's liver would have packed in (from the drugs the conventional doctors were pumping into her) and she would be wheel chair bound from her arthritis. She is now off her drugs, her liver is as back to normal as can be (after the methotrexate knackered it) and on natural remedies her body needed (our kineseologist discovered exactly what was short off).
I'd also be a diabetic were it not for our kinesiologist, when my doctor just told me to get on and nothing was wrong with me..
Yes you are right - no one knows how kinesiology works - not even kinesiologists themselves, but it does. Yes it is very wacky - and sounds crazy and very unbelieveable but having been let down by conventional medical doctors and vets many a time you have to look elsewhere for answers and solutions regardless of how ridiculous they sound.